Combined graphic outline and work locating template for building models



April 13, 1933- A. s. BLUMENTHAL 1,904,674

COMBINED GRAPHIC OUTLINE AND WORK LOCATING TEMPLATE FOR BUILDING MODELS Filed Feb. 29, 1952 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR Abraham S-Blumenfha/ w'l f INVENTOR Abraham 8- B/umenfhal 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 29, 1932 A. S. BLUMENTHAL COMBINED GRAPHIC OUTLINE AND WORK LOCATING TEMPLATE FOR BUILDING MODELS April 18, 1933.

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This invention relates to new and useful improvements in the construction and building up, especiallyoi toys of the hind, where the material for such building is delivered to the child in the form of a great number of pieces.

While this sort of play may he highly educational, especially as a mental training, the task, however, involved in. such construction is often too great, and especially disheartenll ing to the child, because of its inability to secure the proper assembly and incidental alignment of the parts involved; this applies especially to large pieces of toys, such as airplanes, or the like.

It is for the purpose of alleviating such conditions that l have constructed this invention, which may properly be viewed as a combined graphic outline and work locating template for building models especially pertaining to toys and toy-airplanes; the most available form of the said graphic outline being ablueprint.

lt will-Joe evident from the purpose of my invention and the practical embodiment of the idea, that the said combined graphic outline and work locating template may be made on and from any suitable material, such as cardboard, metal, etc. while various methods may be resorted to for procurin the indicatw ing means. ln like manner t e said combined graphic outline and work locating temlate may he made in several parts instead of in one unit; and a piece oil thin wire may wel he bent and formed to cooperate with or take theplace of some or all of the specially bent tabs, serving as a support as well as guiding and indicating means for the proper assembly of the larger and more complicated parts of,

6:9 in this instance, an airplane.

As this device is comparatively simple of construction, the cost of production should be proportionately low.

With the above and other objects in view,

5 this invention @msists of thenovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and in which similar characters of reference indidate corresponding parts in all views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective top plan View of part of an airplanewing'illustrating the application of my device; while Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are detail views relative thereto.

Figure 5 is a perspective side view of the skeleton frame of a fuselage, to which my device in like manner has been applied; while Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, l0 and 11 are detail-views perso tainin to the illustration shown in Figure 5; and Figures 12, 13 and 14 show still further modifications of these latter views.

Referring more-particularly to the drawings, Figure 1 shows an airplane win 0011- structedand built according to my evice, which in this instance comprises first the complete graphic outline 20 or an airplane wing, and next the work locating template 21, erect-' ed upon, made from and forming an integral 2o part of the said graphic outline.

It would appear from the nature'oi the device that the latter may very conveniently, al-

though not necessarily, be made from cardboard.

e thus in this and similar cases the said graphic outline serves as a complete illustration of and guidance to the contemplated construction, the latter is facilitated and made possible to a degree of perfection so in regard to correct assembly and alignment of the several parts by the employment of 1 the said templates, which are disposed at proper places upon the graphic outline and arranged in'such a manner that they will 35 serve to keep in alignment and retain every member or unit of the pieces for building up the said model. lhe said templates are indi cated upon the graphic outline in amanner as has been especially shown in Figure .2, wherein the heavy lines show. the-lines to be sheared, while the dotted lines represent the lines upon which the thus cut out figures must be bent; it being noted that the said figure remains an inte ral part of the graph- 1c outline proper and oes not so arate therefrom. The said out out figure t us forming the template has been. shown after it has been cut out and bent, in a frontal position in Figure 3 and in a sidewise position in Figmt ure 4, while the approximate number of templates for constructing an airplane wing have been shown ready, for operation in Figure 1.

With the necessary number of templates cut out of the graphic outline and erected upon the latter, it will be evident, that all nect the said pieces of building materials together in any suitable manner; and the building of a perfect wing, as described, will have been accomplished.

It will be evident that many other forms of templates may be made according to the same principle, the integral combination of a graphic outline and work locating tem plates with the latter arranged at stategic points without any detrimental efi ect to the clear and unobstructed view, and understanding, of the said graphic outline.

Thus in Figure 5 is shown the building oil a fuselage according to my idea, as the bull:- heads 23, shown herein, are mounted on templates provided in themanner as described, whereby suitable. spacing and proper alignment may be obtained.

llhe said templates used in Figure 5 may be provided, as shown in Figure 8, where,

again the heavy lines are to be sheared while the bending is done on the perforated lines. There is, however, in this view the exception to be noted, that in shearing the said heavy lines, the squares 24 in the figure which forms the template, are cut out altogether in order to form seats for the end-pieces 25, 25,

when the said out out figure is bent into a template adapted to receive a bulkhead hung thereon. v

lli re 7 merely shows a side view-of the templiite, cut out in Figure 8, and which has been folded along the dotted lines and is in 7 position to receive a bulkhead, while in Figure 6, which is a front view of the said template, the said bulkhead has been actually hun in adjusted position ready to receive in t e slots 26 the longitudinal members 27 of the fuselage, as shown in Figure 5.

Figu e 11 shows a modification of my idea as embodied in Figure 8, to the extent of providing a difi'erent form of templates, althou h on the same general principle, as also in this view the shearing is done on the heavy line, and the bending of the parts, thus cut out, on the dotted lines; the form of template thus provided is shown in side view in Figure 10, and in front View in Figure 9,

ready for operation. In Figure 12 is shown still another modification o my device, provided in a manner as formerly described, for

the mounting and adjusting of a bulkhead.

From Figure 13, which is a side view of the embodiment shown-in Figure 12, it will clearly appear that the cut out tabs 28 will have a tendency, when slightly lyent, to securely hold the frame of the bulkhead in posit1on.

In Figure 14 is shown a thin wire thread partly embedded in the cardboard. It will be evident that in making the difl'erent forms of templates, as set forth, such wire-threads may well be used independent of or partly in combination with the said cardboard.

lit is also thought appropriate to state in this connection, that, while the said templates have been shown in combination with and It is obvious that changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the several parts, as shown, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of the .inv ntion, and I do not therefore wish to limit ysel-f to the con struction and arrangement shown and described herein.

What l claim as new, and desire; to secure by Letters Fatent of the United States, is:

l. A device of the class described, comprising a combination of a graphic outline and a work locating template made of a material suitable for permitting work locating and holding tabscompleting the template to be cut out out the graphic outline while still forming an integral. part of the latter and comprising outlines defining said tabs.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a graphic outlinemade upon a cardoard, figures designed on the said graphic outline and being indicated by heavy lines and dotted lines to permit the shearin of said figures, on the heavy lines and ben ing them on the dotted lines, thereby forming work locating templates arranged upon and formin part of the graphic outline.

3. A device of the class described, com

prisinga graphic outline made upon a cardboard, figures separately indicated on the said blueprint and being marked by perforated lines and dotted lines to permit the on the heavy lines and bending them on the -5. A device of the class described, comprising a graphic outline made upon a cardboard, figures designed on outline and being indicated by heavy lines the said graphic and dotted lines to permit the shearin or said figures on the heavy lines and b riding them on the dotted lines and Wires combined with said cardboard to form work locating templates with holding tabs ar ranged upon and constituting part of the said graphic outline.

6. A device of the class described, comprising a graphic outline made upon any suitable material, figures designed on the said graphic outline and being indicated by substantially heavy lines to permit shearing the said figures on the heavy lines, and dotted lines marked upon the said figures to indicate the bending of the latter into work locating templates and holding tabs adapted to cooperate as separate units with a graphic outline.

7. A combined graphic outline and work locating template for building models comprising, figures designed along the lines of the said graphic outline at strategic points, and being indicated by heavy lines and dotted lines to permit the shearing of said figures on the heavy lines and bending them on the dotted lines, thereby forming Work locating templates for securing the perfect alignment of parts in, and construction or, said model, without obstructing the view of the guiding lines of the graphic outline proper.

8. A combined graphic outline and work locating templates for building the fuselage of a model-toy-airplane, the said work 10- cating templates being indicated as figures upon the said graphic outline, and anarked in heavy and dotted lines for sheaning the said figures on the heavy lines and nding them upon the dotted lines, the sai figures having portions cut out therein to form a seat for tabs constituting parts of the said figures; the said tabs being seated in the 10. A. combined graphic outline and work locating templates or uilding models, comprising a graphic outline with separate figures indicated thereon and designed in heavy lines and dotted lines for shearing the said figures on the heavy lines and bending them on the dotted lines to form work locating templates, the latter having or semi-circular shaped an horizontally arranged tabs of a springy characteristic, the said tabs being slightly bent and adapted to receive and retain bulkheads to'be hung thereon. I

11. A. combined graphic outline and work locating template for building odels of various kinds, comprising in co-acting combination a graphic outline, having suitable indications thereon, and separate work loeating templates, the latter consisting of figures cut and bent into shape for cooperation with the said graphic outline, according to the indications made upon the latter.

Signed at Amityville, in the county of Sufiolk and State of New York this 11th day of February,A. D. 1932. 1 r

ABRAHAM S.

upper and lowsaid square openings upon transforming the said figures into a work 9. A combined graphic outline and work locating template for building toy-airplanemodels, comprising a graphic outline with separate figures indicated thereon and deand dotted lines for si ed in heavy lines gn on the heavy lines shearing the said figures locating template.

and bending them on the dotted lines to A form work locating templates, the latter hav-- 

